Neurasthenia in the Tropics
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چکیده
Sir,?May I have your permission to endorse the hope of Major R. Knowles, i.m.s., that the very interesting paper on "Neurasthenia" read recently by Lieut.Col. H. W. Acton, i.m.s., before the Aledical Section of the Bengal Asiatic Society, will attain the intensive study and appreciation which it so richly deserves? As might only be expected of him, Colonel Acton has given his colleagues the world over a very illuminating study of neurasthenia, and that too in the sense of the disease which most neurologists nowadays take to be the correct one. Hence from the strictly neurological standpoint there is very little in the views of Colonel Acton as to the etiology and treatment of neurasthenia to which anyone could take serious objection, except and in so far as he makes the sexual factor a secondary and not. as I hold it to be, a primary one. In the discussion that followed Colonel Acton's paper. Colonel Green-Armytage shewed a strong appreciation of the importance of the sexual factor in the etiology of neurasthenia, but in that lie cited " coitus interruptus "
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دوره 62 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016